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Arnqvist, G. & Rowe, L. 2005. Sexual conflict. Princeton University Press., The reviews (e,g, Nature, TREE, Evolution, Biosciences) describe the book as “superb and highly readable”, “synthesizes a new field of study”, “an unprecedented wealth of valuable information”, and “an essential reading”.

Refereed Publications

1986-1994 | 1995-2000 | 2001-2005 | 2006-2009 | 2010-2011 | 2012-

(*students or post-docs trained in my lab, papers with > 30 citations [Jan25,2011], and those highlighted by the Faculty of 1000 are noted)

1986-1994

  1. Hollett, L., Berrill, M., and Rowe, L. 1986. Variation in major ion concentration of Cambarus robustus and Orconectes rusticus following exposure to low pH. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 43: 2040-2044.

  2. Berrill, M., Rowe, L. Hollett, L. and Hudson, J. 1987. Response of some benthic arthropods to low pH. Annals of the Royal Zoological Society of Belgium 117:117-128.

  3. Rowe, L., Berrill, M. and Hollett, L. 1988. The influence of season and pH on mortality, molting and whole-body ion concentrations in nymphs of the mayfly Stenonema femoratum. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 90A:405-408.

  4. Rowe, L., Hudson, J. and Berrill, M. 1988. Hatching of mayfly eggs at low pH. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 45: 1649-1652.

  5. Rowe, L. and Berrill, M. 1989. The life cycles of five closely related mayfly species (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae) coexisting in a small southern Ontario stream. Aquatic Insects 11: 73-80.

  6. Rowe, L., Hollett, L., Berrill, M. and Hall, R.J. 1989. The effects of short-term pH depressions on molting, mortality and major ion concentrations in the mayflies Stenonema femoratum and Leptophlebia cupida Hydrobiologia 184:89-97.

  7. Rowe, L. and Scudder, G.G.E. 1990. Reproductive rate and longevity in the water strider Gerris buenoi. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68:399-402.

  8. Rowe, L. 1990. The impact of acidification on macroinvertebrates. In: Biological effects of changes in surface water acid-base chemistry. State of Science/Technology Report 13. National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program. Washington D.C.

  9. Bernard, D., Neill, W.E. and Rowe, L. 1990. Impact of mild acidification on short-term invertebrate drift in a sensitive British Columbia stream. Hydrobiologia 203: 63-72.

  10. Ludwig, D. and Rowe, L. 1990. Life history strategies for energy gain and predator avoidance under time constraints. American Naturalist 135:696-707.

  11. Rowe, L. and Ludwig, D. 1991. Size and timing of metamorphosis in complex life cycles: time constraints and variation. Ecology 72: 413-427.

  12. Schluter, D., Price, T. and Rowe, L. 1991. Conflicting selection pressures and life history trade-offs. Proceedings of the Royal Society (Lond) B. 246:11-14.

  13. Rowe, L. 1992. Convenience polyandry in a water strider: foraging conflicts and female control of copulation frequency and guarding duration. Animal Behaviour 44: 189-202.

  14. Rowe, L., Ludwig, D. and Schluter, D. 1994. Time, condition and the seasonal decline of avian clutch size. American Naturalist 143: 698-722.

  15. Rowe, L., Arnqvist, G., Krupa, J. and Sih, A. 1994. Sexual conflict and the evolutionary ecology of mating patterns: water striders as a model system. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9:289-293.

  16. Rowe, L. 1994. The costs of mating and mate choice in water striders. Animal Behaviour 48:1049-1056.

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  17. Arnqvist, G. and Rowe, L. 1995. Sexual conflict and arms races between the sexes: a morphological adaptation for control of mating in a female insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society (Lond) B 261:123-127.

  18. Arnqvist, G., Rowe, L., Krupa, J.J. and Sih, A. 1996. Assortative mating in water striders: Meta-analysis of pattern. Evolutionary Ecology 10:265-284.

  19. Abrams, P.A. and Rowe, L. 1996. The effects of predation on the age and size at maturity of prey. Evolution 50: 1052-1061.

  20. Rowe, L. and Arnqvist, G. 1996. Analysis of the causal components of assortative mating in water striders. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 38: 279-286.

  21. Rowe, L., Krupa, J.J. and Sih, A. 1996. An experimental test of condition-dependent mating behavior and habitat choice by water striders in the wild. Behavioral Ecology 7: 474-479.

  22. Rowe, L. and Houle. D. 1996. The lek paradox and the capture of genetic variance by condition dependent traits. Proceedings of the Royal Society (Lond) B 263:1415-1421.

  23. Arnqvist, G., R. Thornhill and L. Rowe. 1997. Evolution of animal genitalia: morphological correlates of fitness components in a water strider. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 10:613-640.

  24. Rowe, L ., D. *Repasky and A.R. Palmer. 1997. Size-dependent asymmetry: fluctuating asymmetry vs antisymmetry and its relevance to condition-dependent signaling. Evolution 51:1401-1408.

  25. *Johansson, F. and Rowe, L. 1999. Life history and behavioral responses to time constraints in a damselfly. Ecology 80:1242-1252.

  26. *Westlake, K.P. and Rowe, L. 1999 Developmental costs of male sexual modifications in the water strider Rheumatobates rileyi. Canadian Journal of Zoology 77:917-923.

  27. *Tseng, M. and Rowe, L. 1999. Sexual dimorphism and allometry in the giant water strider Gigantometra gigas. Canadian Journal of Zoology 77: 923-929.

  28. *Westlake, K.P., Rowe, L. and Currie, D.C. 2000. The phylogeny of the water strider genus Rheumatobates (Heteroptera: Gerridae). Systematic Entomology 25:125-144.

  29. *Sokolovska, N., Rowe, L. and Johansson, F. 2000. Fitness and body size in mature odonates. Ecological Entomology 25:239-248.

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  30. *Johansson, F., Stoks, R., Rowe, L. and De Block, M. 2001. Life history plasticity in a damselfly: Effects of combined time and biotic constraints. Ecology 82:1857–1869.

  31. Rowe, L. and J.S. Richardson. 2001. Community responses to experimental food depletion: resource tracking by stream invertebrates. Oecologia 129: 473-480.

  32. Day, T. and Rowe, L. 2002. Developmental thresholds and the evolution of reaction norms for age and size at life history transitions. American Naturalist 159: 338-350.

  33. Arnqvist, G., and L. Rowe. 2002. Antagonistic coevolution between the sexes in a group of insects. Nature 415: 787-789 (cited by Faculty of 1000).

  34. Rowe, L. and G. Arnqvist. 2002. Sexually antagonistic coevolution in a mating system: combining experimental and comparative approaches to address evolutionary processes. Evolution 56: 754-767.

  35. Arnqvist, G., and L. Rowe. 2002. Sexually antagonistic coevolution: correlated evolution of male and female morphologies in water striders. Evolution 56:936-947.

  36. *Otigosa, A. and Rowe, L. 2002. The effect of hunger on mating behaviour and sexual selection for male body size in Gerris buenoi. Animal Behaviour 64:369-375.

  37. *Proulx, S., T. Day and L. Rowe. 2002. Older males signal more reliably. Proceedings of the Royal Society (Lond) B 269: 2291-2300.

  38. Houle, D. and Rowe, L. 2003. Natural selection in a bottle. American Naturalist 161:50-67.

  39. Chapman, T., G. Arnqvist, J. Bangham and L. Rowe. 2003. Sexual conflict. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18:41-47.

  40. Luttbeg, B., Rowe, L. and M. Mangel. 2003. Prey state and experimental design affect relative size of trait- and density-mediated indirect effects. Ecology 84:1140-1150.

  41. Bolker, B., Holyoak, M, Rowe , L. and O. Schmitz, 2003. Connecting theoretical and empirical studies of trait mediated interactions. Ecology 84:1101-1114.

  42. *Otigosa, A. and Rowe, L 2003. The role of mating history and male size in determining mating behaviours and sexual conflict in a water strider. Animal Behaviour. 65:851-858.

  43. *Pitcher, TE, Neff, BD, Rodd, FH and Rowe, L. 2003. Multiple mating and sequential mate choice in guppies: females trade up. Proceedings of the Royal Society (Lond) B 270:1623-1624.

  44. *Cameron, E. Day, T. and L. Rowe. 2003. Sexual conflict and indirect benefits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16:1055-1060.

  45. *Lorch, P, *Proulx, S. Rowe, L, and T. Day. 2003. Condition dependent sexual selection accelerates adaptation by natural selection. Evolutionary Ecology Research 5:867-881.

  46. *Bonduriansky, R. & Rowe, L. 2003. Interactions among mechanisms of sexual selection in the sexually dimorphic fly Prochyliza xanthostoma (Diptera: Piophilidae). Evolution 57:2046-2053 (cited by Faculty of 1000).

  47. Rowe, L., Cameron*E, & Day, T. 2003. Detecting sexually antagonistic coevolution with population crosses. Proceedings of the Royal Society (Lond) B 270:2009-2016.

  48. *Bonduriansky, R., *Wheeler, J. and L. Rowe. 2005. Ejaculate feeding expedites oviposition and increases female fecundity in the sexually dimorphic fly Prochyliza xanthostoma (Diptera: Piophilidae). Animal Behaviour 69: 489-497.

  49. *Bonduriansky, R. and Rowe, L. 2005. Sexual selection, genetic architecture, and the condition dependence of body size and shape in the sexually dimorphic fly Prochyliza xanthostoma (Piophilidae). Evolution 59: 138-151.

  50. *Dmitriew, C. and Rowe, L. 2005. Resource limitation, predation risk and compensatory growth in a damselfly. Oecologia 142:150-154.

  51. Rowe, L., E. Cameron*, and T.Day. 2005. Escalation, retreat, and female indifference as alternative outcomes of sexually antagonistic coevolution. American Naturalist 165(S5): 5-18 (cited by Faculty of 1000).

  52. *Bonduriansky, R., & Rowe, L. 2005. Intralocus sexual conflict and the genetic architecture of sexually dimorphic traits in Prochyliza xanthostoma (Diptera: Piophilidae). Evolution 59:1965-1975.

    2006-2009 ............back to top

  53. Rowe, L and T. Day. 2006. Detecting sexual conflict and sexually antagonistic coevolution. Transactions of the Royal Society 361: 277-285.

  54. *Mee, J.A., & Rowe, L. 2006. A comparison of parasite loads on asexual and sexual Phoxinus (Pisces: Cyprinidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 84:808-816.

  55. *Williams, PD, Day, T. Fletcher, Q, & Rowe, L. 2006. The shaping of senescence in the wild. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 21: 458-463.

  56. Rowe, L, *Westlake, K. & Currie, DC. 2006. The functional significance of elaborate secondary sexual traits and their evolution in the water strider Rheumatobates rileyi. Canadian Entomologist 138:568-577.

  57. *Pitcher, TE, Rodd, FH and Rowe, L. 2007. Sexual coloration and sperm traits in guppies. Journal of Fish Biology 70:165-177.

  58. *Dmitriew, C., *Cooray, M. and Rowe, L. 2007. Effects of early resource-limiting conditions on patterns of growth, growth efficiency and immune function in a damselfly (Odonata:Coenagrionidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 85: 310-318.

  59. *Fitzpatrick, M.J., *Feder, E, Rowe, L, and Sokolowski, MB. 2007. Maintaining polymorphic foraging strategies by frequency-dependent selection on a single gene. Nature 447: 210-212 (cited by Faculty of 1000).

  60. * Dmitriew, C. and Rowe, L. 2007. Effects of early resource limitation and compensatory growth on lifetime fitness in the ladybird beetle (Harmonia axyridis). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20:1298-1310.

  61. *Cameron, E., Day, T. and Rowe, L. 2007. Sperm competition, sexual conflict and the coevolution of ejaculate composition. American Naturalist 169: E158-E172.

  62. *Pitcher, TE, Rodd, FH and Rowe, L. 2008. Female choice and the relatedness of mates in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Genetica 134:137-146.

  63. *Punzalan D, Rodd FH, Rowe L. 2008. Sexual selection mediated by the thermoregulatory effects of male colour pattern in the ambush bug Phymata americana. Proceedings of the Royal Society (Lond) B 275:483-492.

  64. *Perry, J.C. and Rowe, L. 2008. Neither mating rate nor spermatophore feeding influences longevity in a ladybird beetle. Ethology 114:504-511.

  65. *Punzalan D, Rodd FH, Rowe L. 2008. Contemporary sexual selection on sexually dimorphic traits in the ambush bug Phymata americana. Behavioral Ecology 19:860-870.

  66. *Perry, J.C. and Rowe, L. 2008. Ingested spermatophores accelerate reproduction and increase mating resistance but are not a source of sexual conflict. Animal Behaviour 76:993-1000.

  67. *Punzalan D, *Cooray M, Rodd, FH and Rowe L. 2008. Condition dependence of sexually dimorphic colouration and longevity in the ambush bug Phymata americana. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:1297-1306.

  68. *Dmitriew, C., *Carroll, J. and Rowe, L. 2009. Effects of early growth conditions on body composition, allometry, and survival in the ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis. Canadian Journal of Zoology 87:175-182.

  69. *Perry, J.C., *Sharpe, D.M.T. and Rowe, L. 2009. Condition-dependent female remating resistance generates sexual selection on male size in a ladybird beetle. Animal Behaviour 77:743-748.

  70. Fricke, C., *Perry, J., Chapman, T. and Rowe , L. 2009. The conditional economics of conflict. Ecology Letters 5:671-674.

  71. *Khila, A., E. Abouheif and L. Rowe. 2009. Evolution of a novel appendage ground plan in Water Striders is driven by changes in the Hox gene Ultrabithorax. PLoS Genetics 5:e1000583.

    2010-11............back to top

  72. *Punzalan, D, FH Rodd and L. Rowe 2010. Temporally variable multivariate sexual selection on sexually dimorphic traits in a wild insect population. American Naturalist 175: 401-414.

  73. *Wyman, MJ. AF Agrawal and L. Rowe 2010. Condition-dependence of the sexually dimorphic transcriptome in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 64: 1836-1848.

  74. *McCauley, SJ and L. Rowe 2010. Notonecta exhibit threat-sensitive, predator-induced dispersal. Biology Letters 6: 449-452.

  75. *Dmitriew,C, MW Blows and L. Rowe 2010. Ontogenetic change in genetic variance in size depends on growth environment. American Naturalist 175: 640-649.

  76. *Mee, J.A., and L. Rowe. 2010. Distribution of Phoxinus eos, Phoxinus neogaeus, and their asexually-reproducing hybrids (Pisces: Cyprinidae) in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario. PLoS One 5(10): e13185. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013185

  77. *Perry, J.C. and L. Rowe. 2010. Condition-dependent ejaculate size and composition in a ladybird beetle. Proceedings of the Royal Society (Lond) B 277: 3639-3647.

  78. *Perry, J.C. and L. Rowe. 2011. Rapid microsatellite development for water striders by next generation sequencing. Journal of Heredity 102:125-129.

  79. *Dmitriew, C. and L. Rowe. 2011. The effects of larval nutrition on reproductive performance in a food-limited adult environment. PLoS ONE 6(3): e17399. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017399

  80. McGuigan K., L. Rowe and MW Blows. 2011. Pleiotropy, apparent stabilizing selection and uncovering fitness optima. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26: 22-29. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.10.008

  81. *McCauley, Shannon J., Locke Rowe, and Marie-Josée Fortin. 2011. The deadly effects of “nonlethal” predators. Ecology 92: 2043–2048. [doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/11-0455.1]


    2012-     ............back to top

  82. *Perry, J.C. and L. Rowe. 2012. Sexual conflict and antagonistic coevolution across water strider populations. Evolution 66: 544-557. <Early View 5 OCT 2011>. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01464.x

  83. Rowe, L. and G. Arnqvist. 2012. Sexual selection and the evolution of genital shape and complexity in water striders. Evolution 66: 40-54. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01411.x

  84. Long, T.A.F., A. Agrawal and L. Rowe. 2012. The effect of sexual selection on offspring fitness depends on the nature of genetic variation. Current Biology 22: 204–208. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.12.020

  85. *Wyman, M., Cutter, A.D. and L. Rowe. 2012. Gene duplication in the evolution of sexual dimorphism. Evolution 66: 1556–1566.<Online Now> doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01525.x

  86. *Perry, J. and L. Rowe. (2012). Sex role stereotyping and sexual conflict theory. Animal Behavior 83: April 2012 e10-e13. <Online Now> doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.01.030

  87. Shärer, L., L. Rowe and G. Arnqvist. (2012) Anisogamy, chance and the evolution of sex roles. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27:(5) 260-264. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2011.12.006

  88. Khila, A, Abouheif E and L. Rowe (2012). Function, developmental genetics, and fitness consequences of a sexually antagonistic trait. Science 336: 6081, Pages: 585-9 <Online Now> DOI: 10.1126/science.1217258 Refer links (Abstract | Reprint | Full Text )




Funded Manuscripts of Lab Members

I encourage students to work and publish on their own, even when I have made substantial intellectual contributions as well as financing the project. I have also encouraged students to collaborate outside the lab if it enhances their thesis development.

  1. *Tseng, M. 2000. Notes on mating behavior and sesual size dimorphism of two species of water striders (Hemiptera: Gerridae) in Vietnam. Journal of the Kansas Entomology Society. 72: 327-329.

  2. *Bonduriansky, R. (2001). The evolution of male mate choice in insects: a synthesis of ideas and evidence. Biological Reviews 76:305-339.

  3. Dunn, P.O., Whittingham, L.A. and *Pitcher, T.E. 2001. Mating systems, sperm competition, and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in birds. Evolution 55: 161-175.

  4. *Pitcher, T.E. and Evans, J.P. 2001. Male phenotype and sperm number in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Canadian Journal of Zoology 79:1891-1896.

  5. *Proulx, S.R. and T. Day. 2001. What can invasion analyses tell us about evolution under stochasticity in finite populations. Selection 2:1-15.

  6. Evans, J.P., *Pitcher, T.E., and Magurran, A.E. 2002. The ontogeny of courtship, colour and sperm number in male guppies. Journal of Fish Biology 60: 495-498.

  7. Neff, B.D. and *Pitcher, T.E. 2002. Assessing the statistical power of genetic analyses to detect multiple mating in fish. Journal of Fish Biology 61: 739-750.

  8. Morrow, E.H., Arnqvist, G., and *Pitcher, T.E. 2002. The evolution of infertility: does hatching rate in birds coevolve with female polyandry? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15:702-709.

  9. *Bonduriansky, R 2002. Leaping behaviour and responses to moisture and sound in larvae of piophilid carrion flies. Canadian Entomologist 134: 647-656.

  10. *Tseng, M. 2003. Life history responses of a mayfly to seasonal constraints and predation risk. Ecological Entomology 28:119-123.

  11. Morrow, E.H., *Pitcher, T.E., and Arnqvist. 2003. No evidence that sexual selection is an "engine of speciation" in birds. Ecology Letters 6:228-234.

  12. *Bonduriansky, R. 2003. Layered sexual selection: a comparative analysis in piophilid flies. Canadian Journal of Zoology 81: 479-491.

  13. *Bonduriansky, R. and C. Brassil. 2002. Costly senescence of a short-lived fly in the wild. Nature 420:377.

  14. Bonduriansky, R. and Day, T. 2003. The evolution of static allometry in sexually selected traits. Evolution 75:2450-2458.

  15. Morrow EH, and *Pitcher TE. 2003. Sexual selection and the risk of extinction in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society (Lond) B 270: 1793-1799.

  16. Day, T. & *Bonduriansky, R. 2004. Intralocus sexual conflict drives the evolution of genomic imprinting. Genetics 167: 1537-1546.

  17. Neff BD, *Pitcher TE. 2005. Genetic quality and sexual selection: an integrated framework for good genes and compatible genes. Molecular Ecology 14: 19-38.

  18. *Williams P.D., Day T. and E. *Cameron. 2005. The evolution of sperm-allocation strategies and the degree of sperm competition. Evolution 59: 492-499.

  19. *Bonduriansky, R., and Brassil, C.E. 2005. Reproductive ageing and sexual selection on male body size in a wild population of antler flies (Protopiophila litigata). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18: 1332-1340.

  20. *Pitcher, T.E., Dunn, P.O. and L.A. Whittingham. 2005. Sperm competition and the evolution of testes size in birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18: 557-567.

  21. *Vamosi S.M. 2005. Interactive effects of larval host and competition on adult fitness: an experimental test with seed beetles (Coleoptera : Bruchidae). Functional Ecology 19: 859-864.

  22. *Colgoni A, *Vamosi SM. 2006. Sexual dimorphism and allometry in two seed beetles (Coleoptera : Bruchidae). Entomological Science 9: 171-179.

  23. *Williams, P.D. and Day, T. 2007. Epidemiological and evolutionary consequences of targeted vaccination. Molecular Ecology 17: 485-499.

  24. *Dmitriew, C. 2011. The evolution of growth trajectories: what limits growth rate? Biological Reviews 86: 97–116.

  25. *Vamosi SM, den Hollander MD & Tuda M. 2011. Egg dispersion is more important than competition type for herbivores attacked by a parasitoid. Population Ecology 53: 319-326.

Non-refereed publications

  1. Day, T, Houle, D, & Rowe, L. 2006. Comment on Roughgarden. Science 312:691.

  2. Bennett, A., D. Currie & L. Rowe L. 2006. Special issue honouring Geoffrey G.E. Scudder - Foreword. Canadian Entomologist 138: VII-VIII

  3. Chapman, T., G. Arnqvist, J. Bangham and L. Rowe. 2003. A response to Eberhard and Cordero. and Córdoba-Aguilar and Contreras-Garduño. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18: 440-441.

  4. Rowe, L. and T. Day. 2001. Lecture notes in Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

  5. Rowe, L. and Marsh, J.S. 1984. The future of the Spanish River. Park News 20: 11-14.

  6. Rowe, L. 1990. Freshwater crayfish: biology, management and exploitation. Book review. Quarterly Review of Biology. 65: 366.